December 12- Childhood Food Memories-Part 1

-Fast Food/Chain Restaurants– Roy Rogers, Burger King, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Wendy’s, White Castle, Stewart’s (good root beer), Chick Fil-A; Bonanza, Ponderosa, The Rustler, and Ground Round (near Aunt Ann’s house).

-Restaurant– Alipertis’, Spiritos, Big Stash’s, Coach and Four, Cock n’ Bull at Peddler’s Village, P.A. and the Smithville Inn. JFK Airport had a good buffet style one that Mom, Mike, Pat and I went to before my trip to Germany in 1989.

-Diners – The Rustic Mill, Parsonage Road, The Cavalier, Galaxy, Westfield,  Mastoris, Sleepy Hollow Inn, Woodbridge, Reo, Mark Twain, St. George, Betty Lind, GM, Scotchwood, and Macedonia (now Wisdom).

-Mastoris –They have delicious sweet cheese and cinnamon breads. The pancakes with strawberries and whipped cream are yummy. We used to go there sometimes when visiting Aunt Ann and Uncle Joe.

-Mom and I would sometimes split our meals at diners. We liked getting liver and onions. Mom enjoyed the chopped liver at their salad bars too.

-Special birthdays -13^th and 16^th – Our parents took us out to the diner or restaurant of our choice. I picked a seafood place down the shore but I forget the name of it or even where it was for my 13^th. I was wearing a white hand-me-down dress from Fran.

  We went to the Fulton Restaurant in Rahway for my sweet 16. Mike chose the Sleepy Hollow Inn for his 13^th but I don’t even remember where we went for his 16^th- maybe nowhere.

-Alligator Bread – Mom went to The Three Little Bakers Dinner Theater in Delaware with her friends/co-workers in the mid-1980s and brought back a bread shaped like and alligator. I took a picture of it before we ate this. It was so cool.

-Pizza – This was a Friday or Saturday night treat for us (and sometimes our friend Kelly) in the late 70s – mid 80s. We’d get it from Venice in Linden. Other places we liked over the years were Tony’s, Two Tony’s and Rosario’s, which is near our Aunt Ann’s house.

-The Butcher Block –We used to go there a lot in the 1980s for our lunchmeats, some meats, rolls, rye bread, bagels, potato salad, and coleslaw. We’d also sometimes get sub sandwiches and party platters.

1974- Roy Rogers

 

1978- Betty Lind

My 13th Birthday

Mike's 13th Birthday

Sleepy Hollow Inn

 

 

My 16th Birthday- 1985-Fulton Restaurant

Mastoris

Mastoris' Cinnamon Bread

Mastoris' Cheese Bread

 

Peddler's Village- Cock 'n Bull

 

Spiritos-Elizabeth

 

 

 

2013

 

Reo- Woodbridge

 

Scotchwood

 

Parsonage Diner

 

 

Rustic Mill-Cranford

Coach and Four- 1980s

 

alligator bread-Three Little Bakers

Three Little Bakers-Delaware

 

 

1977

White Castle-Rahway- 1973

 

 

Rosario's Pizza- Bordentown

 

Venice Pizza

 

The Butcher Block

 

 

Note-some photos are from the internet- pizza places,The Butcher Block; fast food except for Roy Rogers; Diners and Restaurants except for our 4 family photos, Sleepy Hollow postcard, Three Little Bakers, and Coach and Four